skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extracting sequences of statements into a function sometimes improves readability, when those sequences do together some recognizable operation, but other times such an extraction worsens a lot the readability, because now you need to also open other pages to see what the program really does, when the statements in a sequence are not really related.

Even in programs optimally written for readability it is frequent to have iterations or selection statements much bigger than a page, especially where the coding rules enforce a small length for program lines, e.g. 80 characters.

In languages that follow Algol 60, like Pascal, C, C++ and so on, which have a single kind of statement brackets, it is frequently needed to add comments on the final braces or "end", to avoid confusions when reading the program.

This is much more cumbersome than in the languages that follow Algol 68, e.g. Ada and bash, where there are several distinct pairs of statement brackets.
> their children to marry and have kids, so that there are grandchildren to fill those golden years

Which seems to benefit everyone long-term, though (on average/societal scale anyway). I mean what alternatives are you suggesting?

Communes? State run child breeding and education facilities?

If your issue is with monogamy, well that has proven to be the most stable system and seemingly facilitated most of human progress (at least in the more successful societies).

> a lot of young people may choose to stick

You do have a point, it's certainly not necessarily optimal from the individual perspective. Problem is that most alternatives might not be sustainable over several generations so they just die out.

Probably not exactly what you're thinking about but e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers
> So, people moving away is not new and not surprising, and happens all over the world, it's basically the main driver of urbanization. What's new was (rich) people moving "back" (to suburbs for the American Dream, and nowadays to have kids).

Actually, no. It is a very recent phenomenon, and never experienced before at this scale in the history of mankind.

Even at the current scale, this is what the data shows:

> Nearly six in 10 young adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up, and eight in 10 live within 100 miles, according to a new study by researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau and Harvard University.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/07/theres-no-pla...
Amazon already has this but as a 2nd audio track

noticed this when watching Stargate SG1 the other day
Safety agencies in Europe are already pushing to bring these back: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-ba...
I assure you, Magnus is quite good at chess.

And yes, he is a massive asshole, at least in regards to chess. He is an incredibly sore loser, constantly makes it about himself (at the cost of every other competitor, such as in this case: they can't have beaten him, but instead he had to do this spectacle to give himself an excuse to exit and to asterisk their win). He has done this sort of thing again and again.

He has loads and loads of fanboys who will always excuse this behaviour. Who'll say that he has earned the right to be like this. They'll adulate poor sportsmanship like showing up terribly late "like a boss", as if this isn't contemptible behaviour. Eh.

And he can. He might be the greatest chess player ever. Doesn't change that he's obnoxious and boorish.
So we can tamper with it? :)
A campaign gave Beijing access to texts and phone convos of Americans
Very few people have to go to Russia, and if you must, take a train or a bus.
I don't doubt that, but from what I've been reading Arcane is notorious for having songs in the background exactly describing the action onscreen.
Nordic semiconductor also has microcontrollers with BT and Wifi. They are much less common than espressifs solution though.
Ah good point. Hadn’t occurred to me that I could still get in as tourist so to speak
I think that listening to radio while driving is less of an indication of autistic behavior than thinking that someone listening to the radio is exhibiting autistic behavior.
Prior submissions have gotten 15 points and 13 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chipsandcheese.com
Every authoritarian measure instituted by Eastern Bloc countries was justified by the authorities as a necessary precaution against reactionaries/fascists. The Nazis similarly justified every act of inhumanity as a necessary preventative measure against the takeover of their country by the "Judeo-Bolshevism" of the murderous Soviet regime. The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
>Russia flirted with Turkish airspace in 2015; Ankara shot it down [1]. Zero further provocations. You can’t appease a bully by lying prostrate. Even if the bully has big guns at home. We aren’t risking nuclear war by drawing clear lines, we’re inviting it by clumsily blurring them.

Zero further provocations doesn't seem right [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Russian_Air_Force_Al-Bab_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Balyun_airstrikes
You need to read both Red Notice, and Freezing Order by Bill Browder. Truly eye opening, and in line with this type of thing.
It is not "free riding" to take the software that is explicitly given away, for free, gratis, nada, nothing, and not pay anything in return.

"I want this to be given away free for ideological reasons but you must also pay me" is a moronic position. Pick one or the other, if you want money, just sell the software.

The refusal of "FOSS" communities to use a direct non-commercial clause is an entirely self-inflicted wound.
The title needs the word 'earlier': "as recently as seven months ago". Otherwise, this is conflating separate missions that used the same ship.
(+1) Things Evernote Got Right
That Scene in a Nolan Film When You Give Up Trying to Follow the Story [video]
I am wondering where the "generalize code after doing it for the 3rd time" rule of thumb comes from? I also subscribe to it, and read it somewhere 15/20 years ago.

Was it the Mythical Man Month book Maybe?
> It's not a war crime.

Really it does not matter if it is a war crime or is not.

We are talking about just one drop in an ocean of war crimes. One drop more or less will not change the fact that Israel behavior is out of control and extremely disgusting.

Could somebody show any single international law about war and human rights that still has not been desecrated by Israel?.

Any people jailed by that? oh they don't work with us anymore, they are 'ex', so everything is fine

No more questions, your Honor.
It extends for literal centuries before the current Ukraine debacle. The country has been a mindless lumbering brute for most of history.
Europe isn't doing nothing, it's sending weapons to Ukraine. That hurts Russia, but not as directly as firing them yourself.
NPM packages deploy reverse shells when installed
Ghostty First Impression
Smells like Ruby to me haha. I know is not the language, but for some reason the ruby code I've stumbled into are all like that.
I'm sorry, but I never ask developers about things like FizzBuzz.

When you get a developer, they are joining a project that they know little about, and the value they bring is how quickly they can adapt to the problem space and solution space that your project sits in.

I'm going to call them 'trick questions' when you start asking about things like FizzBuzz, as if the smartest of them all will get the role.

In reality, their ability to learn and thrive in the space your project works is the really valuable thing.

Explain the problem space your product sits in, ask them what they think some challenges could be in that niche, see how insightful they are, or how far off the mark they are. Walk them through developing some of their ideas, leaning on your experience in that space. See what evolves, see if they have some insights you haven't thought of.

There are much better ways to evaluate candidates.
It looks great, but I have a couple of questions. First, how do you handle personal data? Do you comply with GDPR? Your website asks for a lot of it, but it doesn’t explain what’s being stored, how it’s encrypted, or anything else. Also, do you have any plans to develop an app?
NATO without the US can easily hold against Russia, provided nukes don't fly and the US does not stop selling munitions.
Yes, he flipped on Ukraine, yes, it's a promising sign, no, it doesn't mean he can't flop on Ukraine.

The uncharitable scenario is that he's waiting for the RU bribe money to land before delivering -- and no one deserves charity less than this man. Remember when he stopped the Javelin shipments to Ukraine until such time as Zelensky could deliver dirt (real or manufactured) on Biden? This could be exactly like that, though at this time he presumably wants money not dirt.
Run an IMAP server (on a separate host or VM) behind a locally hosted VPN - Wireguard is easy to set up and works fine for this - and you can have it both ways: mail accessible from all your clients no matter where you are. If your mail server is breached there won't be anything on it since everything is sucked up by the IMAP server. If your PC (where you currently store your mail) is compromised they'll be able to get access to everything so in that respect there is no change.
I recall being on roughly a 6 month upgrade cycle for my pc back then. Alternating between cpu/mobo/mem and gpu.
That's a good list. I'd also add a willingness to take risks, which was particularly evident in the early years with RIVA 128 but also arguably CUDA was a risk and one that didn't pay off until relatively recently.
Is this the same Tae Kim that wrote how to learn Japanese?

https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/
Disagree. FIDE's dress code has double standards, there was a dude in chinos made to look like jeans and they were allowed. To me it seems like a very antiquated rule that needs to be reworked/abolished to keep up with the times.
The principal is “I should be allowed to wear reasonable everyday attire”
Standing by the principle was when faced with an ultimatum:
“Change now or else.”
He chose
“Naw, I’ll just leave.”
other discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42527572
> also young males leaving to seek opportunity isn't an exclusively modern phenomenon.

True but as far as we can tell it was usually (if not entirely exclusively) done through the same social networks that existed locally [unless you were leaving to murder/rape/rob people]. Unless they really, really had to you only moved to another city/location because you had a cousin, uncle etc. or someone else there you had some ties with. Outside of organizations like the church or the army (and even then) a complete outsider was at an extreme disadvantage (relative to today).
Plasticlist – analysis of plastic traces in American foods
Your numbers are meaningless because neuromorphic computing hardware exists in the context of often forgotten spiking neural networks, which actually try to mimic how biological neurons operate through voltage integration and programmable synapses and they tend to be significantly more efficient.

SpiNNaker needs 100kWh to simulate one billion neurons. So the rat wins in terms of energy efficiency.
This is going on a tangent, but I would like to point out to you that Atheism is itself a religion: It's a belief in no god(s), a belief in refuting god(s).

I'm Japanese, we (Japan) consider ourselves Non-Religious when we choose to celebrate newborn life at Shinto Shrines, weddings at Christian Churches, and funerals and graves at Buddhist Temples with no dogmatic attachment to any of them as an institution as we go through the motions in life.

There's a healthy enjoyment of Christmas involving cake and Kentucky Fried Chicken in there, too.

Thusly, I always find it interesting/amusing that Atheism is usually positioned as the anti-religion in the West when really it isn't.
Maybe 5 years ago but can't say I agree any more. Netflix in particular stretches 2-hour scripts into 10-hour limited series. I'm trying to watch Black Doves right now and continually get bored at how much exposition and background there is. There was clearly a tight, fun script in there somewhere before the committee performed surgery on it. I don't need everything explored and explained to death, give me something with rhythm instead.
Why the U.S. Patent System Is Scam – The Patent |FD Finance[video]
I have found this so absurd that I believe this goes against the spirit of entreprenuership.

For example , the video presents one case where this one company rackspace got sued for selling cloud based servers because this random troll patent company holds the right of cloud

and that they had 3 options

1) Licensing fees for something so absurd
2) Settle for close to 300k ish
3) pay lawyers atleast million of dollars to represent in trial and 3-4 years

This is absolutely absurd and I also want to let you know that the american industrial revolution had actually started because american didn't follow the british patent after their independence or atleast in this instance and they had created this one cotton factory (I think I had seen this from one other video , which I would share if I remember) , which lead to american industrialization or played a huge part.

This has truly messed up my brain that america of all places allow such things .

Though I also want to clarify that I am not American but I felt this strong sense of justice to report on this issue here because there are so many American founders who might want to know about the absurdity known as the american patent system
1:60 scale model... i got excited for a moment based on the (misleading) title.
Agents keep thanking each other when using GPT-3.5-turbo
> Come on now. Renewable energy is gaining on fossil fuels around the world.

What matters to me is CO2. When we can drop that below 400, then I will be impressed. As for now, I'm waiting to see if this is not just a case of Jevon's paradox.

> Fire and the wheel are technology; are you against them too?

No, those are local technologies that anyone can make with some basic knowledge. I am not against primitive technologies. We will always use them. What I am saying is that we should be like the Amish: examine individual technologies for their long-term consequences, and not develop those. And, we should regress many as well. The discussion of which and how would be lengthy but we should have it (as a society).
This appears to be a weekly chess column in the newspaper, and they all seem to have a chess puzzle in them[1]. I suspect in the paper it would be at the end of the column, with the answer on another page. It's perhaps a bit of an inelegant way to present it on the web version, but that's probably some sort of tradeoff with how the Guardian's website works, and if it's worth adding some sort of special case presentation for the chess column, which probably isn't exactly the most read bit of the site.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/series/leonard-barden-ches...
That's true. It's a problem that isn't discussed nearly enough.

This is partly why I think that the pace of AI development needs to slow down. We've had disruptive technologies in the past, and society eventually adapted when new jobs were created, but none of them had the potential to completely replace humans in most industries. None of them raised existential questions about our humanity, the value of human labor, our place in society, and the core pillars of economy, education, etc. And, crucially, none of them were developed in just a few years.

We need time to discuss these topics and prepare for the shift. But, of course, any mention of slowing down is met with criticism of regulations stifling innovation and profits, concern about losing a technological advantage over political opponents, etc., so this is unlikely to happen.

This century certainly won't be boring, so let's enjoy the ride, and hope that no major conflict pops off. Though with the way things are going, my hope is waning.
I think this comes down to the point of the article: the whole question is an undecided legal minefield.
> maximum time spent on platform

Not even that, they optimize for acquiring and keeping subscribers. They gain nothing from you watching movies, it is just costing them bandwidth, at least on their ad-free plan, which was the only option until recently. It is completely different from YouTube and TikTok, or even oldschool TV, which get most of their revenue from ads.

They need a few good ones to attract new subscribers, and they do. Stranger Things and Squid Games are really good. For the rest, they just need enough content for people not to cancel their subscriptions.

If you want to encourage quality production, just subscribe for the month they are doing something good, ad-free of course, then unsubscribe. Many people are doing that, and maybe that's what it takes to get them to change their strategy. Maybe not for the better though.
> He does not appear to have any issues that his thought processes are logged by servers owned by a multi-billion dollar company.

His job is publishing his thoughts. They're not going to a single company, but everyone. If he gets results faster, we all get to see his thought process faster.
Ideally, chatgpt would be familiar with everything coming from researchers like him.

> constantly singing the praises of specifically ChatGPT and now CoPilot

Chatgpt is mentioned just once and only as a "such as" example.
Nit: RGB tends to have a gamma curve (sans linear RGB)
That's because if this theory is correct from the point of view of the SSD there was no reboot yet, because there was never any total power loss.
Monokai Pro for Jetbrains
Monokai Pro is now available for JetBrains IDEs. A well-designed theme with carefully tuned colors and custom icons, built to let you focus on your code. Worth checking out if you're particular about your editor's aesthetics.
Agree with this 100%. It’s so much easier to have kids if your parents live nearby to help too.

Root cause is moving for work IMO.
Philosophically this is a fair point but practically it is not. Eventually any programmer will start relying more and more on tools to help with skim/read/comprehend code bases, no matter the language. There's a reason that every text editor and IDE used for programming includes helpers to find subroutine calls, jump to matching symbol (curly braces, closing parenthesis, end statement, or tab-depth indicator), etc, etc. No language is so "easy to skim/read and comprehend" that you'd be happy with a realistically significant code base and only the navigation keys on your keyboard.

There's a very fine line between nice language syntax and ease of use via tools you use to interact with the language (with APL-influenced languages being the only exception I can think of, but even there I've heard of programmers having physical key map symbols overlaid on keyboards).
>If you believe you can consistently predict future like that, it should clearly guide your investment in stocks.

Perhaps I should have written with Disclosures. For the record I did invest in AMD when it was below $3 and TSMC at below $400TWD. None of these are investment advices so take it what you will. ( You get much better return with Tesla and Nvidia in the same period of time but then investment isn't always about best returns. ) And I was waiting to invest into Intel, unfortunately Pat is gone. To my words I said this in April 2023 [1]

"I am just worried if Stock price continue to fall, Pat may be forced out again by those stupid Board. And if Pat is out, I won’t invest in Intel at all."

As you will read in my reply below, I have a very negative view on Intel's board for a very very long time.

>However, just like how quickly and suddenly Intel lost the lead

It wasn't quick or even sudden. I wrote about it in 2014 and got a death threat from Intel Fan boys then. I have been questioning about Intel's management on GPU, Fab capacity allocation, CapEX, dividends etc for a very long time. For another point, TSMC never wanted to be the most advance manufacturing Fab. Them having leading node is purely accidental and Intel's slip up. They have been doing Intel -1 node for most of their history and are doing just fine. Providing Pure Play Foundry Services with Industry wide support on Tools at a reasonable / acceptable price for Fabless players. And right now, they are firing on all cylinders.

Again. None of these are investment advices and personal opinion only.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35722974
> You can't do 100% "show, don't tell" unless your movie is 15 hours long

You most certainly can, though it relies on trusting the audience.

Flow (2024)

Sasquatch Sunset (2024)

Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
Yet more evidence that the Age Depopulation Bomb’s main root causes is plastic endocrine disruptors
It just doesn’t though. That is a feeling specific to her and a few others. It’s not universal at all
I know right? You need a helmet and knee protection at least, it's a rough sport.
It says "Returning Visa Waiver Program Applicants". What does "returning" mean in this context?
Yep I did. Too late to edit.
However, not taking the law seriously also often results in jail time or serious consequences. Sometimes especially when the law doesn’t make sense.
Yesterday when I opened Netflix, the promoted content was... https://www.netflix.com/title/80092835

Which is: "Fireplace for Your Home: Crackling Birchwood Fireplace"

It's what you expect, a non-interrupted 60 minutes video of a fireplace. That's it.

It's apparently #6 in TV Shows today.
> As far as I'm aware, the compiler AdaCore sells is just GCC.

The compiler yes, but I'm convinced FOSS gnatprove must be outdated in some way: Last time I tried following AdaCore's SPARK manuals, certain basic aspects and pragmas didn't work correctly on the latest version.

Not to mention when SPARK aspects sometimes broke the LSP and formatter.
Statistically the number of Latin American migrants that move to the US yearly is tiny compared to the internal migration and especially to the number of people in Latin America who didn't go anywhere, though. The fact the it's not 100% who don't move doesn't really disprove anything.
Yes i agree with that one most people don't need, they should first use a profiler. Then they can easily improve the performance by 10x.

For example I optimized a calculation with python dataframes by monkeypatching the 'unique' method so it would skip the sort, since my data was already sorted. This gained me a 5% performance improvement. (there where a few other tricks which reduced the calculation time from 3h to 20m making iterating faster)

So i guess the assembly part is just a personal interest and it is only useful for the most inner loop of a program which you can't avoid.

It seems that in general using SIMDs/intrinsic is already in the very advanced playbook of a developer. Just like reflection, classpath scanning etc, GPU acceleration.

Ideally the standard library should provide the fastest JSON/YAML/CSV parser so no other attempts are made to improve on the standard.

I suspect your argument could even be used if you need performance it might be easier to just switch languages. Somebody was super exiting to me that he used a javascript lib which generated optimized code for SQL queries deserialization at runtime. I bluntly said well shouldn't you just use another language to avoid this complexity.

Curious question, Why did you read assembly often in your career?
Can anyone from team green comment on the accuracy of this account? I'm interested in how nvidia has evolved and mistrusting of the conflict of interest between accuracy and readability.